Pantomime star Billy Pearce launched Mecca's newest bingo club on Balm Road in Hunslet, an occasion marked with a balloon release by local schoolchildren. This was July 1999, a month that a six-part Channel 4 documentary following a group of single women trying to find love in Leeds was first broadcast. READ MORE: 31 Leeds restaurants you may remember from the 1990s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
![East Leeds U-8s RL team won the Leeds Youth Games. Back: Brad Langton, Tom Morris, Brandon Hannon, Michael Downey, Jake Normington, Luke Keeligan. Front: Scott Coates, Kingsley Wetherald, Billy Kirby, Nathan West, Aaron Manning.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTIxNzA3MzEx.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=800)
7. Leeds in July 1999
East Leeds U-8s RL team won the Leeds Youth Games. Back: Brad Langton, Tom Morris, Brandon Hannon, Michael Downey, Jake Normington, Luke Keeligan. Front: Scott Coates, Kingsley Wetherald, Billy Kirby, Nathan West, Aaron Manning.Photo: Peter Thacker
![It costume fitting time ahead of August's Leeds West Indian Carnival and Ramona Ottley looks cool and colourful.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTIxNzA3MzEy.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=800)
8. Leeds in July 1999
It costume fitting time ahead of August's Leeds West Indian Carnival and Ramona Ottley looks cool and colourful.Photo: Keith Lawson
![Young girls attending the Northern Ballet Theatre's Summer School at the West Park Centre watch as class mates are put through their paces.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTIxNzA3MzEz.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=800)
9. Leeds in July 1999
Young girls attending the Northern Ballet Theatre's Summer School at the West Park Centre watch as class mates are put through their paces.Photo: Bruce Rollinson
![The Royal Mail shelled out £40,000 to save this Victorian postbox on Denton Road after it was damaged by a car. Pictured posting a letter is Stephen Wheelhouse.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTIxNzA3MzE0.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=800)
10. Leeds in 1999
The Royal Mail shelled out £40,000 to save this Victorian postbox on Denton Road after it was damaged by a car. Pictured posting a letter is Stephen Wheelhouse.Photo: James Hardisty
![South Leeds Stadium hosted an festival of Irish dance. Pictured, from left, are Scarlett Walton, Poppy Sargent and Hannah Stapylton.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTIxNzA3MzE1.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=800)
11. Leeds in July 1999
South Leeds Stadium hosted an festival of Irish dance. Pictured, from left, are Scarlett Walton, Poppy Sargent and Hannah Stapylton.Photo: James Hardisty
![The Leeds to the Millennium fashion show took place at the Corn Exchange.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTIxNzA3MzE2.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=800)
12. Leeds in July 1999
The Leeds to the Millennium fashion show took place at the Corn Exchange.